Text Editor

Text Editor is an integrated text editing tool in Workbench that allows you to view and edit text files of many kinds, including the following:

  • Plain text (.txt)

  • Comma-separated values (.csv)

  • Python, Lava, Perl, JavaScript, and Vulcan scripts

  • PowerShell, batch, and shell scripts

  • XML and HTML

Syntax highlighting is available for text files that are language-specific.

You can open Text Editor in the following ways:

  • On the Workbench ribbon, in the Tools group, click Text Editor.

  • On the Quick Launch toolbar, click the (Text Editor) button.

  • On the Start Page, under Tools, click Text Editor.

  • Alternatively, you can drag a text file (.txt) from Windows File Explorer onto the Start Page and select Text Editor in the Open With dialog that appears.

The following tools and commands are available in Text Editor:

Open file

Save contents

Send to the printer

Send All or Selected text to the CSV Editor as COMMA separated data

The selected text will be sent to the CSV Editor and interpreted as comma-separated values (CSV). If no text is selected, the whole file will be sent.

Send All or Selected text to the CSV Editor as WHITESPACE (double space or tab) separated data

The selected text will be sent to the CSV Editor and interpreted as whitespace-separated values. If no text is selected, the whole file will be sent.

Cut current selection to clipboard

Copy current selection to clipboard

Paste clipboard context to cursor location

Delete current selection

Undo last change

Redo last undo

Find

Search the document for given text.

Find and Replace

Search the document for given text and replace some or all occurrences with another piece of text.

Make editor text smaller

Make editor text larger

Toggle word wrapping

Toggle current line highlight

Show/hide line endings

Show/hide line numbering

Open the command line insertion and interpretation tool (Ctrl + Space)

Use this tool to insert one of many predefined command line commands.

Syntax highlighting

Select the language to use for syntax highlighting. When you open a file, Text Editor will detect the language based on the file extension.